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To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (88501)4/28/2015 1:39:32 AM
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Something you could do is keep your old OS hard drive and start a new OS hard drive with a fresh install and have a dual boot option with your computer. This way you can have it both ways by trying to clean up your current drive and having a very fresh installation to boot up when you want that you can slowly restore your software applications to.

Another recommendation is that you start gathering up the setup files and licence keys for your software in a convenient location. I use an external hard drive and a large capacity thumb-drive for this. You will find this very useful the next time you build a computer.

Also something I do with my computers is that I start out with 2 hard drives for my operating system. I call one my virgin-drive and I call the other my working-drive. After the build, I clone my virgin-drive over to my working-drive and I only use my working-drive to surf the internet, evaluate software, and mess around. Only after evaluating software on my working-drive will I install new programs I like on my virgin-drive. When I make software additions to my virgin-drive, I also install all the windows updates and then clone the updated virgin over to my working-drive. This requires saving my bookmarks and personal files to an external backup drive to be loaded back onto my working drive later, but this keeps my virgin-drive very pristine and free of trash. In addition to this, I also have images of my virgin drives at various stages of development and have used this method building 3 computers with very good success.

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